Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-28

eral Superintendent of construction of
bridges for the st. Louis, Arkansas and
Texas, arrived IN Fort Worth yesterday
and will be here several days. He in
spected the Trinity yesterday at several
points near the city with an eye to the
selection of the location for the company's
bridge spanning the river to Fort Worth.
1t is probable that work on this bridge
will begin at once and the structure COM
pleted before September |.
The Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe has g
large force of men at work in the Terri
tory, putting in iron bridges where false
work is being used, bsllasting the track,
widening cuts and doing other necessary
work, preparatory to running through
trains. The company is preparing for
fast time, and it is Tumored that schedule
! time tor passenger trains will be thirty
| five miles an hour. 1t is believed now
that everything will be in readiness for
the running of trains by June 5.
! Major j. F. HinckleY, chief engineer of
/ the St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas, was
in Fort Worth yesterday and was met
/ here by Mr.. A. G.. Weeks and John Witt,
assistant engineers, and a consultation
held. 1t is slated that Mr.. Witt will be
in charge of construction at Fort Worth
and northeast of this city, while Mr..
! Weeks will take charge at Commerce and
Greenvllle and southwest of those points.
Mr.. Weeks is still in the city, but will 60
to Greenville in few days.
The thirty citizens of Fort Worth who
have signed the bond securing to the St.
Louis, Arkansas and Texas right of way
in this and Dallas county have held a
meeting to take steps to secure the
necessary land. Colonel r. +. Maddox
was made chairman of the committee,
having power to act in the matter with
Robert Mozart, Colonel j. P.
Smith, w. A. Barter, John F.
Swayne and W. A. Huffman as
the other members of the committee.
Local committees will be appointed of
those who live siiGGGG Tie The line end the
work will begin just as soon as the com
pany's engineers say where the line is to
run. The committee hopes to be met in
g liberal spirit by the land owners, for
every dollar the right of way costs will
have to come out Of the pockets of Fort
Worth citizens.
The st. Louis Railway Register says of
the Cotton Belt: At the annual meeting
of the St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas Rail-
way Company last week definite purpose
was reached as to the extensions of
the road that will be at once under
taken. The fact that delegations from
seventy-two counties of Texas waited
upon the directors at their meeting, each
with some strong inducement which it
held out to the company to persuade it to
build to some particular region is evil
dence that the road is held in high esteem
by that state. The most fattering offers
were receivrd from all hands.
The people of the southwest hope for
great and beneficial results from the es-
adjustment Of this new line to st. Louis.
They hope that the competition of the
rosd will be instrumental in reducing
rates and bringing improved service.
The Railway Age in its last issue says
The Order Of Railway Conductors, which
held it's nineteenth annual session in New
Orleans last week, now has q member
ship of 10, $50, no less than twenty-one
divisions with 1886 new members having
been added in the last year. The order
has always taken a wise and con-
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strikes, and commands the re-
spect and confidence of railway
officers and all others who have observed
its workings. Its members as class are
men of great intelligence and excellent
character, trusted railway employees and
good citizens, and their association to-
gether in this organization is not only
pleasant and beneficial to themselves but
advantageous to the railway interest and
to the public. The reelection of Mr.. G.
S. Wheaton as head of the order was 8
compliment highly deserved.
From Colonel 0. T. Lyon of Sherman,
of the firm of Britton & Lyon, railroad
contractors, reporter learned yesterday
that in about thirty more working days
the St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas
will have its entire line of
track laid from Sulphur Springs TO Sher-
man. At the latter place passenger and
freight depots are now going up, so that
when the rails are laid to that point bust
ness may commence instanter. Ties and
iron for the yards there are also being
delivered, as well as quantities OF bridge
timbers. The history of the construction
Of this line is worth giving in brief. 1t
reflects not only high credit on the ener-
getic builders, Britton & Lyon,
but on Sherman as commu-
nifty In the summer of '86, a few
of its citizens determined to have the
road. President Fordyce intimated that
they might get it if they came TO time on
q bonus. In surprisingly short space
of time thew raised the almost unequsled
subsidy of Sl35, 900. Without knowing the
exact distance 70 within five miles AID
prior to any survey, Brittou & Lyon Of
fered to take the subscription paper with |
out recourse on anybody, and to grade,
clear and grub seventy miles, which the
company was to iron. This they
have done in splendid shape,
and it is one Of the
best graded roads in the state, the cuts |
being twenty feet wide and embankments |
fourteen feet on top. Besides this, they |